prof.dr. APM (Albert) Wagelmans

Biography

Albert P.M. Wagelmans (1960) is a Professor of Management Science at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests are the development and analysis of optimization methods for production, public transport and health care planning. He has published in journals such as IIE Transactions, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and Transportation Science, and served on the editorial boards of Computers & Operations Research and Naval Research Logistics.

Professor Wagelmans is a founding member of the Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT) and the Erasmus Center for Healthcare Logistics (EHCL). He has carried out projects in collaboration with organizations such as NS Dutch Railways, the Schiphol Group, the Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), ORTEC Consultants and the Dutch Transplant Foundation (NTS).  Some of his scientific work has been co-sponsored by the first three mentioned organizations and by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). 

From 2006 to 2014, professor Wagelmans served as the director of the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus School of Economics. From 2016 to 2020, he was vice-president of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. He is currently president of the NGB, the Dutch OR Society.

Professor Wagelmans has received several awards for his excellent teaching, both from his students and from his colleagues at the Erasmus School of Economics.